THAILAND LIVE Thailand Live Wednesday 14 Mar 2018

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Will 13-year-old Mint be deported back to Thailand?

by Sara Brun Nielsen

 

 

In Denmark, this is hardly news anymore, – just another foreigner about to be deported. And you may think “but this is a child living with her mother in Denmark – Danish media must be outraged!”

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1029018-will-13-year-old-mint-be-deported-back-to-thailand/

 

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Husband shoots ex wife and son dead in jealous rage in Nong Khai - male "Gik" in hospital

 

PIcture: Thai Rath

 

A jealous former husband who found out that his ex was having dinner with another man went to her house armed with a .38 gun yesterday evening.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1029020-husband-shoots-ex-wife-and-son-dead-in-jealous-rage-in-nong-khai-male-gik-in-hospital/

 

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Police hunt for couple in Pattaya beach sex video

By The Nation

 

Tourist police are trying to locate and take legal action against a foreign couple who were caught on video having sex on Dong Tan beach in Pattaya City.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1029013-foreign-tourists-going-for-it-like-dogs-in-the-street-down-on-jomtien-beach/?do=findComment&comment=12795857

 

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Boy drowns in Phitanulok

By The Nation

 

A boy drowned in a canal in front of his school in Phitsanulok on Tuesday evening while he was trying to retrieve a football, police said.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1029024-boy-drowns-in-phitanulok/

 

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Israeli government ends feud that sparked snap election talk

By Maayan Lubell

 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sits next to Israeli Education Minister Naftali Bennett during a session of the plenum of the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament, in Jerusalem, March 12, 2018. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun

 

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's government settled a dispute on Tuesday that had threatened its survival and prompted speculation that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was seeking a snap election to help him dodge a corruption probe.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1029025-israeli-government-ends-feud-that-sparked-snap-election-talk/

 

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Cabinet approves national reform plans

 

BANGKOK, 14th March 2018 - The weekly Cabinet meeting has resolved to approve national reform plans in 11 areas, to be implemented in tandem with the 20-year National Strategy. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1029028-thai-cabinet-approves-national-reform-plans/

 

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[Video] This is awesome: Google co-founder tests autonomous flying taxis in New Zealand

BY STAFF WRITER

 

 

Google co-founder Larry Page has been given approval by the New Zealand government to test autonomous flying taxis.

 

Full story: https://tech.thaivisa.com/video-awesome-google-co-founder-tests-autonomous-flying-taxis-new-zealand/27744/

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Villagers turn drought into baht, selling Mekong weed

By The Nation

 

Residents of a village in Chiang Rai’s Chiang Khong district has turned the annual drought into an opportunity by harvesting Mekong weed to sell, earning some Bt500 to Bt2,000 a day, they said.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1029032-villagers-turn-drought-into-baht-selling-mekong-weed/

 

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Philippine leader demands review of dropped cases vs. alleged drug kingpins

 

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte participates in the U.S.-ASEAN Summit in Manila, Philippines November 13, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

 

MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered a review of a decision by state prosecutors to dismiss complaints against several suspected drugs kingpins, amid outrage among the public and some of his allies about them walking free.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1029036-philippine-leader-demands-review-of-dropped-cases-vs-alleged-drug-kingpins/

 

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Physicist Stephen Hawking, who conquered the stars, dies at 76

By Stephen Addison

 

FILE PHOTO: British scientist and theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking attends a launch event for a new award for science communication, called the Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication, in London, Britain December 16, 2015. REUTERS/Toby Melville/File Photo

 

(Reuters) - Stephen Hawking, who sought to explain some of the most complicated questions of life while himself working under the shadow of a likely premature death, has died at 76.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1029037-stephen-hawking-modern-cosmologys-brightest-star-dies-aged-76/?do=findComment&comment=12796225

 

 

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Thanathorn to request registration of new party on Thursday

By The Nation

 

 

Car-parts billionaire Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit will submit a request to the Election Commission on Thursday to found a new political party.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1029039-thanathorn-to-request-registration-of-new-party-on-thursday/

 

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Here’s the date Apple will unveil its next generation of products

BY STAFF WRITER 

 

REUTERS/Robert Galbraith/File Photo

 

Apple has just announced the date of it annual developers conference, where the tech giant is expected to announce the next generation of its iPhone, Mac and iPad.

 

Full story: https://tech.thaivisa.com/heres-date-apple-will-unveil-next-generation-products/27749/

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Monk caught on video ‘masturbating’ on Bangkok bus

By The Nation

 

A monk has been caught on video apparently masturbating on a Bangkok bus.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1029047-monk-caught-on-video-‘masturbating’-on-bangkok-bus/

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Bangkok restaurants stop serving fish from Fukushima amid fears of backlash

 

FUKUSHIMA - Eleven Japanese restaurants in the Thai capital of Bangkok have stopped serving imported fish caught off the coast of the Fukushima prefectural city of Soma, the prefectural government has said.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1029050-bangkok-restaurants-stop-serving-fish-from-fukushima-amid-fears-of-backlash/

 

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Fraction of Bangkok’s 1.1 million dogs, cats registered as rabies-free

By The Nation

 

 

Only 5,193 of Bangkok’s 1.136 million stray and pet dogs and cats are registered as having been vaccinated against rabies, a senior Agriculture Ministry official said on Wednesday.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1029053-fraction-of-bangkok’s-11-million-dogs-cats-registered-as-rabies-free/

 

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Security guard charged after B1k Family Mart BB gun armed robbery

Phuket News

 

Local security guard Jamlang Teabtatong confessed to using a BB gun to rob the Family Mart, from which he made off with only about B1,000. Image: CCTV

 

PHUKET: Police apprehended a 50-year-old man who robbed a Cherng Talay Family Mart at gunpoint yesterday (Mar 13) and made off with only B1,000.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1029054-phuket-security-guard-charged-after-b1k-family-mart-bb-gun-armed-robbery/

 

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Inspired By ‘Toon,’ Cop Bikes 200K To New Post

By Asaree Thaitrakulpanich, Staff Reporter

 

  

Police Col. Somchai Yuusawad with his bike at 5am on Wednesday at Nong Yai Provincial Police Station in Chonburi province.

 

CHONBURI — A cop set off at 5am on Wednesday to go to his new post – in Trat province – by bike.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1029056-inspired-by-‘toon’-cop-bikes-200k-to-new-post/

 

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Prayut brushes aside activists’ call to step down

By Thai PBS

 

 

Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha brushed aside a call by the pro-election activists for his resignation if he chooses to enter politics.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1029058-prayut-brushes-aside-activists’-call-to-step-down/

 

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ITD boss Premchai turns himself in to police today

By Thai PBS

 

 

Italian Thai Development president and CEO Premchai Karnasuta turned himself in to the police at the Natural Resources and Environmental Crime Suppression Division on Wednesday morning for acknowledgement of three charges.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1029060-itd-boss-premchai-turns-himself-in-to-police-today/

 

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Age not an issue in Phuket light aircraft crash, say police

Shela Riva

 

AIC investigators recover the wreckage from the crash site on Sunday (Mar 11) Photo: Eakkapop Thongtub

 

PHUKET: Thalang Police have confirmed that the 67-year age of the captain flying the light aircraft which crashed on Saturday (Mar 11), killing him and a Flying Officer, is not an issue of legal concern.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1029064-age-not-an-issue-in-phuket-light-aircraft-crash-say-police/

 

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Phuket Town prepares for drought

The Phuket News

 

Phuket Waterworks Authority workers work through the night to repair a water mains. Photo: PWA

 

PHUKET: Phuket City Mayor Somjai Suwansupana has called on residents to conserve water as Phuket heads into the hot season, with little rain forecast until the rainy season begins in May.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1029066-phuket-town-prepares-for-drought/

 

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Case Against Russian ‘Sex Instructors’ Reaches Prosecutors

By Teeranai Charuvastra, Staff Reporter

 

  

Anastasia Vashukevich poses for a picture on Jan. 20 with James Bond Island in southern Thailand

 

BANGKOK — The prosecutor’s office is deliberating whether to indict a Russian sex guru and Belarusian escort whose claims to have compromising information about the 2016 US election have garnered international attention, police said Wednesday.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1029067-case-against-russian-‘sex-instructors’-reaches-prosecutors/

 

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Army removes volunteer lifeguards from Phuket beaches

The Phuket News

 

Tourists relax on a beach in Phuket, with not a lifeguard in sight. Photo: Eakkapop Thongtub / file

 

PHUKET: The commanding officer of the Royal Thai Army contingent stationed in Phuket has confirmed that soldiers under his command last Tuesday (Mar 6) “asked” volunteer lifeguards at Kamala to leave the beach and no longer provide lifeguard patrols for tourists.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1029069-army-removes-volunteer-lifeguards-from-phuket-beaches/

 

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Google to ban ads on cryptocurrencies, related products

BY REUTERS

 

Image: REUTERS/Mike Blake

 

(Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Wednesday it will ban advertisements for cryptocurrencies and related content starting in June.

 

Full story: https://tech.thaivisa.com/google-ban-ads-cryptocurrencies-related-products/27751/

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Focus on tackling online gambling in lead-up to World Cup

By The Nation

 

File photo

 

“Please stop promoting and advertising gambling in your online media,” a representative of Thailand Youth Institute cried out loudly at a seminar recently organised to prevent and minimise harm from online gambling.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1029071-focus-on-tackling-online-gambling-in-lead-up-to-world-cup/

 

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Lawmakers are proposing law to stop pet abandonment, prevent disease spreading

By Thai PBS

 

 

Lawmakers are now proposing an amendment to the Animal Cruelty Prevention and Welfares of Animals Act that will require pet owners to register their dogs and cats, and implanted with microchips as part of the effort to preven pet abandonment, and spread of deadly disease.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1029072-lawmakers-are-proposing-law-to-stop-pet-abandonment-prevent-disease-spreading/

 

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Gaur dies mysteriously in Phetchaburi

By Thai PBS

 

 

A 5-year-old bull gaur died mysteriously shortly after it came out of roadside bushes to encounter motorists on the road in Kaeng Krachan district of Phetchaburi province on Tuesday.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1029073-gaur-dies-mysteriously-in-phetchaburi/

 

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Chon Buri mother pleads for help for lymphoma-stricken daughter

By Preewadi Wichaiprasit 
The Nation 
Chon Buri

 

A Chon Buri mother, 64, on Wednesday begged for help for her daughter, who is suffering from stage-three lymphoma.

 

Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1029077-chon-buri-mother-pleads-for-help-for-lymphoma-stricken-daughter/

 

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Father and daughter arrested for using drugs at Sattahip temple

By The Nation

 

 

District officials arrested a man and his daughter for using drugs in monks’ living quarters at a temple in Chon Buri’s Sattahip district on Wednesday morning.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1029078-father-and-daughter-arrested-for-using-drugs-at-sattahip-temple/

 

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Teacher suspended after accused of abusing 14-year-old girl

By The Nation

 

 

The Buri Ram Educational Office has issued a work suspension order for a 57-year-old school teacher who allegedly sexually abused a 14-year-old girl for two years.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1029079-buri-ram-teacher-suspended-after-accused-of-abusing-14-year-old-girl/